How many hours per day?

[kandm]

Hi,

We are really keen to home educate our two children. We would like to find out more info, as much as poss before we 100% commit...... we have heard of the ed otherwise website and will be looking to join soon.

We were just wondering how people have got on with educating two children, of different ages, from the start? Our two children are 2yrs apart.

Also, we would be looking to follow the curriculum - how many hours do people HE per day?

We have spoken to only 2 families which HE and would really like to hear from more.

~ Many thanks in advance ~

Sorry, Greythorne - am I Steg? I like dinosaurs.

She is still at it now, despite urgings.... Greek to GCSE grammar exercises.

It varies a bit, of course, but she is a child who likes structure and predictability. She likes to know what she will be doing every minute of the day. I tried being more freewheeling, but she hated it. It might change, of course, but or now if I come in and say 'do you want to stop all that and go for a walk?' she will say no.

She also does quite a structured programme - Kumon maths and English, and four languages.

And she has a lot of Thursday off to go skating - every fortnight - and fencing - every week. It's shorter than her old schoolday was, too, but most of that was faff important social things.

At school she was mainly miserable because lessons stopped BEFORE she'd found out all she wanted to know. Now they don't.

"she has a lot of Thursday off to go skating - every fortnight - and fencing - every week"

Ah, I think I must know you then sieglinde, because where I live there is home ed skating every fortnight on a Thursday, and fencing every week!

Don't tell me though, let me guess. You see if you can figure out which of the people you know in real life is me, before I figure out who you are. Does that sound like fun?

...it would probably be cheating to approach in turn each parent I know who has a ten year old daughter and exclaim triumphantly in my best Hercule Poirot voice, "You are the real sieglinde!"

sieg
sorry, was reading on iPhone and thought you were steg!

Oh, I don't mind. I like dinosaurs as well as German myths. Come to think of it, there is an overlap.... Saracen, feel free to twirl your waxed moustaches. It's dd;'s eagerness I love in her, but it's not an every-day thing, and she is - like everyone I've taught including my children - an individual with her own needs and abilities.. so I imply no norms or rules for others.